The Custodian Technocracy of Esmerel is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by Coordinator-General Gwyneth Tabor with an even hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, smutty television, and unlimited-speed roads. The compassionate, cheerful population of 16.668 billion Esmerelians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Lapiz Point. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Esmerelian economy, worth a remarkable 5,125 trillion NationStates Dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 307,515 NationStates Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Political dissidents are cut off from essential services, spies caught red-handed are served cocktails on their first-class flights home, people make a career out of medical voyeurism, and anti-government political posters adorn every building like wallpaper. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Esmerel's national animal is the Raven, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Esmerel is ranked 456^th in the world and 1^st in New Hyperion for Lowest Crime Rates, with 202.05 law-abiding acts per hour.